A/N Thank you all for the reviews. It is alway's nice to get them. Harry Potter is not mine, this is a story from a fan.

The first couple of chapters will be a lot of talking and info. this one will also be one of that. In the next chapter, I will start taking it to the next level. and you will all be in for a wild ride.

(BSC 5 C03) C130 Preparing for the future part one

It was a week into the holidays and three weeks after the return of Voldemort. Harry had invited his family to live at Potter castle and asked them all to come to dinner that night. They had all listened to the stories of the last war and came to one conclusion. Voldemort didn't care about anybody and only wanted the power to rule the world. It was something they knew in the way he did his business.

Harry was sitting with all his friends around the pool at a table in the corner. He had asked his grandmother to keep everyone inside the castle while they were making their plans. She had asked him what he was up to but they would only tell it all when everybody was there.

While Harry was looking at the castle he heard Susan asking him what they had to do. He gave a deep sigh and turned back around. "Hate to tell you this but I think we have to take the fight to them all".

Susan looked at him as Hermione asked him what they were all thinking. "Are you doing this because of what my mother saw in the paper".

Harry nodded, "It is clear that the things that were written in there were the work of Wizards. I even think one of them was the work of Voldemort himself. Now we will talk about that later when everybody is here. The one thing I was thinking of was Hogwarts".

"Harry" Neville started. "You can't put your own money into Hogwarts, the moment you do, Fudge and Albus will use it for their own gain and none of it will go into Hogwarts".

"I know Neville I know. The only problem I have is when I kick Albus out of Hogwarts the ministry will stop the funding and we have to do it all our selves. Now I know I do have enough money to keep it going for a long time, but do we want to".

"Harry", Daphne broke in. "It's not only the money you need to keep the school open".

Start Flashback.

It was at the end of the year when Umbridge told them all things were about to change the following year.

Umbridge and Fudge had left the Infirmary when Harry turned his eyes on his grandmother. "What the hell did that toad mean by the statement that the ministry is running the school".

Minerva was a little startled when Harry snapped at her but she immediately understood why he said it. It would mean quite a lot of difficulty if they wanted to change something's Albus had done. "Harry, you have to understand that there were hard times, that lasted for a couple of years after the war. Hogwarts could not keep the doors open because there were not enough students to bring in the money Hogwarts needed to stay open. Because of that, the ministry had to step in. Now I wasn't here when Albus made the deal but I knew that it was about ten-twenty years after the first war. Now I have been friends with Albus for a long time. So I was there when He became headmaster. I wasn't a teacher yet but I was his friend. That was in nineteen fifty-five. It was about five years later that he changed. I can't say how but he did, it was slowly but he did. In sixty-five he made the deal with the ministry after he had canceled almost all the classes and even the squib classes. There weren't many students so there wasn't much money coming in. After he canceled the classes he could stretch it a little bit, in the end, he had to make the deal. The ministry is collecting the money and is filling it up with the amount Hogwarts needs. In exchange for it, they get the right to decide what we teach and how much we teach the students".

"And in the years after it, he never went back on that deal," Harry asked.

"No, Harry, he never did and it has been this way ever since. That might also be the reason why the ministry thought they owned Hogwarts".

End Flashback.

Harry had a thoughtful look on his face when he turned back to his friends. "No, it is not only the money we will need. When we take Hogwarts back the ministry will make it hard for us to get stuff so we just have to make it our selves. Grow our own food. Create our own things to sell and also create potions to fill up our infirmary. If that is not all we can only do it after Bellatrix has been sent back and that will also be the start of the war".

Bella nodded, "So basically we will make it the only safe place in England".

"That will mean we have to start the moment we get back to Hogwarts," Susan said while Harry started to shake his head.

"No, we had to start yesterday but that is something we can't so tonight will be the start as we tell them all our plans".

It was at that moment that Harry, Bella, and Daphne heard from Minerva and Zanita that all the guest had arrived. As the friends were getting to their feet Bella stopped Harry when she grabbed his arm. "Harry are you going to tell them all the things we are going to do, or are you going to keep something behind".

Harry stopped as all the friends stopped with them. "What do you all think we have to do".

"We are doing our best things when they don't know it all" Susan told him.

"I would say, let them find out after some of it, they will only stop us when they know it all," Neville told him.

"Tell them all about Hogwarts, that is where we need the help, other than that it can wait," Hermione told him.

"If you can keep Ginny and Astoria out of it then it will be fine with me," Daphne told him as Bella snorted. "What" Daphne snapped.

"If you think we can keep them away when we are at Hogwarts than you are more oblivious then I am. If you would ask me, then I would say give them a job to do and it will keep them out of our hair and safe" Bella told her.

"I think we have to do that with the whole house," Harry said as he started to smile. "Do you all think the ministry will teach us all about magic or will they be keeping a lot from us this year".".

It was now that the friends were looking at him with a frown on their faces. "Well, think about it. There are only two positions free for a new Professor. The ministry can't put Molly back in the chair. So if you ask me than Umbitch will be taking up the position for defense against the Dark arts or the care of magical creatures".

Hermione smacked her forehead, "Of course, they are afraid of you and by not teaching us anything they can keep you down".

"There is more Hermione, think a little further," Harry told her.

It was now that Hermione started to walk left and right. "Not, teaching you, no problem you know it all. Not teaching Bella, again no problem she knows more than us, even more than you when she remembers it all. Not teaching us, no problem there, we learn everything at home" Hermione was mumbling in her self but loud enough so that the others could hear her loud and clear.

"You know, that she means Potter castle when she said home don't you," Neville told him. Harry just nodded as he kept his eyes on Hermione who was slowly getting into the direction he was also thinking of.

"So that is not a problem but then she won't be teaching the others. That is the problem, they will not learn to defend themselves against the Death Eaters. They can't defend them self against her or other Attacks. HARRY WE HAVE TO TEACH THEM, WHAT IF VOLDEMORT ATTACKS HOGWARTS".

"Easy Hermione, that was what I was also thinking about, but how do we do it".

"At first nothing but after a month or so".

It was now the time for Harry to frown at her. "Why wait".

Hermione smiled at him in a way he wasn't expecting her to do. "Later Harry, Later I still have to think about it". and she started to walk inside.

*#*

While the friends were outside Minerva was having tea with some of the others. She was looking outside and didn't hear the others calling her. It was when Augusta hit her on the shoulder that she looked up. She smiled at her as she gazed around the room. The only ones that were there now were Emma and Zanita who was reading one of her comics about the adventures of spiderman.

"Minerva where were you, it looked like you were miles away," she asked as she saw the smile fade a little.

"I was thinking about this morning, the friends asked me what the war was like".

"You told them".

"What else was I to do, you know how they are like when they want to know something".

Augusta smiled "It is not that I do not want them to know, I want them to know everything so the can be prepared for what is to come. The problems I have with them knowing it is that I do not know what they do with it. With them, you can expect everything. Especially the things we don't want them to do".

"I know and it all went very fast after Emma showed them the sun a muggle newspaper".

It was now that Augusta turned her attention to Emma, "Well tell me all".

Emma sat up straight and nodded. "Well as you know it is my day off. So today I wanted to see the grounds together with the kids. This land is so big that Even Harry hasn't seen it all. So I rented some mountain bikes to go for a day out on the grounds when Hermione asked about the war. It was at breakfast that Minerva started to tell them".

Flashback.

"Grandmother, Mini. How did the war start the last time".

Minerva who was sitting there sipping her tea gazed at all the eyes that were looking at her? Even Ginny and Astoria were sitting that little bit straighter. Slowly she placed her fork and knife back at the table and dabbed her lips with her napkin. "Okay I will tell you but I will keep it to the facts, there will be no, blood bath".

"Grandmother, that is the last thing we want to hear, we know that people were murdered and raped and we do not want to know the details about all of that. The only thing we want to know is what to expect".

Minerva nodded as she placed her elbows on the table and locked her fingers whit each other as she gazed one more time. "The war started a long time before the real fight started. We never knew who Voldemort was but we knew he had been to Hogwarts. The first people who were hanging around him were the parents from the Death Eaters he has now. Now in those days, he started with attacks on muggle people. It was reported as a terrorist group in the muggle newspapers like the sun. There were random attacks but the more it happened the bloodier they were. After the war, we learned that he had used those attacks to train his death eaters in spreading fear. He had done that for little over a year when he turned his attacks on wizarding targets".

It was at that point that Hermione raised her finger. "That can't be many because we only have four of them. Hogwarts, the ministry, Diagon Alley, and Hogsmeade".

Minerva shook her head. "No there are many more. The things you have learned in Muggle primary school were also things we Wizards learned about. The only difference is that we learned other things like the reason behind Stonehenge. Or the wizarding entrance to the palace or Big Ben".

"He, I remembered that there was a big explosion at the palace in the early seventies," Emma said as she looked at Minerva.

Minerva gave her a weak smile. "That was an attack from the Death Eaters. There is a place in the palace where Muggles are not aloud. It is the spot where we Wizards aparate or get out of the floo. That day there was a special event I don't remember what it was but a lot of us went into London. It was on that day that Voldemort placed an attack on the palace. In the muggle news, it was reported as an explosion from some terrorist group. A lot of the Death Eater attacks on wizarding spots were talked about as accidents or people who just went crazy".

"That was all over the place," Emma told Minerva. "The papers were full of those stories and it never made any sense to any of us because they never did get a culprit".

"No all of those things were swept under the carpet so to say. But that was just the start of it. After there so-called training they went on and started to attack people on higher places and also the Families that were against him. Their tactic was scaring them first into submission and later it went on to kill them. Voldemort was the one that did most of the killing. As the war went on he started to really go after all the people that were against him. All of your parents were the ones that were targeted. Now the parents of Daphne and Astoria weren't targeted because they remained neutral".

It was at these words that both Daphne and Astoria were getting mad.

"You two stop it right now," Minerva told them in a firm voice. "Yes, they were neutral but that didn't mean they were safe. What a lot of people didn't know was that your father had a key role in all of it. Albus was talking to him to join the order and what he could do for the war. While the Death Eaters were doing the same thing for the other side. It gave them the information that helped Lily and Alice fight Voldemort to a standstill for three times. So they were in more danger than any of us. If Voldemort ever found out that they were talking about him behind his back they would have been killed at the spot".

This was the thing that brought both of the girls down from there burst of anger at their parents. They were now looking at them in another light and they realized that the war had a different effect on many people. Still, it was something they had to ask their parents at another time.

Minerva saw the recognition in the eyes of the two girls and went on. "A lot of people were helping the war in a good and bad way. Some were on the bad side but were made to be there like Bellatrix and Narcissa. The same could be said for the good side because you all know of Peter. Now Voldemort wasn't the one for constant fighting, he was more of the person to attack, kill and flee to then do it all again a week later. When he got to the end of the war he was attacking almost every other day. It was clear to many of us that he was on the edge of taking over everything because he was targeting the ones that were giving him the fight. He killed the bones" and Minerva looked at Susan. He killed the Prewett twins, the older brothers of Molly".

There was a frown on some of the faces. As Minerva gazed on. "I know what you are all thinking, but those two men were a lot like the twins. However, they were very reckless. So I do not know if Molly is the same".

"She is not," Harry said hotly. "The way she was handling Ginny like a rag doll was nothing like the way it was supposed to". Harry took the hand of Ginny and hold it tightly. "The way she and Ron are talking is telling me they all like the way of Voldemort is thinking. Now they might not be Death Eaters but they are of the same mindset. Molly more than Ron because he is just a follower of either Molly or Draco. So taking those two out will make him look at things in a different light".

Minerva nodded and knew that Harry was still thinking of a way how to get Molly out of the game. It wasn't that she was a real danger but she was just making it more and more difficult to fight the war in a way they wanted to do it. But Minerva could not think a lot about it because the friends would figure it out. So without another thought, she got back to her story. "When the war was getting to the end he became more and more obsessed with the ones that were fighting him. We didn't know why but you and Neville were on the top of his lists. Both of your parents went into hiding and we all know how it all ended".

end Flashback.

"Well, that was quite the story to tell them. It was good that you didn't tell them all the bloody parts but I know they already understand it" Augusta told her. "But I don't think that that was the reason why you were looking up at the gods of magic that made you seem out of there".

Minerva smiled up at her old friend. "No, that was not it. It was after Snot came up to Emma and handed her the Sun and some other newspapers. There were a couple of articles in there that told us that the war had started. Some mask men had been spotted around the country hurting people in ways they don't know-how. It was just like the start of the last one. The get into a park molest some people and get out. Now the thing that bothered me was that the friends weren't afraid, surprised or even nervous the just seemed. I'm not sure if I can say it but they seemed happy and excited".

Augusta sat down with a little huff. "That was what I'm afraid of. I know that they wouldn't back down but it just seemed like they were looking forward to it. It makes me a little afraid of what is to come. Now I know that they still have a year before Voldemort will send Bellatrix back and Harry takes the fight to him because he will.

*#*

Emma stood and walked out of the room. She had a hard time looking at the two friends that were sitting across from her. In the day she had, she had found out some things. First off all the Peverell grounds were bigger then any of them could even imagine. It was so big they didn't even have the time to see it all. The other thing she had found out was that the friends were way further than any of them. They not only had plans to deal with the war but also how to stop it. The only thing they were afraid of was the outside factors like what would the others do. Then again they even had plans for a lot of them.

It all became very clear to her when she saw that they even invited Narcissa to come along for the bike ride. It was really fun because they had to teach her how to ride the bike firs but when she got the hang of it she was unstoppable and even raced some of them. Emma could not help it but broke down when Narcissa road into a little pond. It was now that she was getting very jealous because she could dry herself with magic and clean her self right at the spot. She just loved Narcissa the way she was and she knew that Narcissa was feeling the same way about her. In the days she had with her they grew closer and become very good friends. It all happened in that little time they had in that little house watching all the things Peter was doing.

Minerva and Augusta didn't realize that Emma had left the room and were clearly surprised when she walked back in. In her hand, she had the muggle papers and placed them on the table in front of both of them. She pointed at some of the articles that were clearly attacks on muggles by some men in masks. "When I got the papers and showed them all the articles they instantly knew that the war had started, The one thing that surprised me was the fact that one article had them all worked up. it was this one about an orphanage that had collapsed for some unknown reason. Bella seemed to be really worked up about it".

Augusta read the article and saw that the owner and her daughter had survived the collapse of the building. "Minerva is this the same orphanage as the one Bella was in".

"Yes, I think it was also the one Bella appeared in front of the moment she got send back".

"Oh, My" Augusta said.

"What, What does it mean and why o my" Emma exclaimed.

"Sit down Emma," Minerva told her as she saw her jump up. "We do knot know what it means yet but from all the articles this is one that stands out. That Orphanage is looking to be a red line through the life of Voldemort. So it would not be a surprise that the kids are thinking along the same line".

Augusta snorted, "Knowing the kids they have already wrapped up the whole story before we figured out there was a red line".

Minerva laughed and nodded at her friend while Emma was huffing because she didn't understand one bit of it. "Emma just wait for tonight. The kids will tell us everything they have decided and what we can do to help them. I know they are doing a lot but they have been doing it from the moment they became friends. They have taken the fight to Albus and now they are going to take it to Voldemort".

Emma looked up at her and Minerva knew what she was thinking. "That was what we thought at first too, but no. They know exactly what they are doing and everything they do or are going to do, they will tell us".

"Really," Emma asked, "Would they really tell us". Both Minerva and Augusta were looking at each other. "Don't get me wrong" Emma went on. "We were told about the world cup if we were needed and we knew what we had to do when they got us. Still, the only thing we knew was that we had to guide the guest to another place on the grounds, nothing more. But the moment we came there they had thought of everything we would never even think of our selves".

Minerva held up her hands. "You are right. we don't know either but we keep on telling ourselves that we know it all and what they are telling us is all they are doing or are going to do. Other than that we are just going along for the ride and only Narcissa knows the most of it. But then again, later tonight we will all know what we are allowed to know". Both Emma and Augusta smiled at it as Minerva was filling the teacups one more time.

Zanita placed her comic on the table and looked at the three of them. "Did I miss something".

*#*

It was just before Dinner that Minerva walked to the gate of the Peverell estate where she waited for the guest to show up. She stood there with Emma and Narcissa who would be spying on the meeting for Lord Voldemort.

Emma smiled at Narcissa when she asked: "So, you are here to spy for snake face".

Narcissa smiled "Well yes, the friends know of it so their first meeting will be the one I can show him without any shame. After it, I will be joining you for the real meeting".

"Wait, we are doing the real meeting in an hour or so".

"Ooh yes, I forgot we already had that meeting an hour or two ago, let me tell you about it," Narcissa told her with a smile.

Flashback.

Voldemort was sitting in his throne when Narcissa stormed into the room. "My Lord I have just been at the first meeting of Potter and he is expecting me to come back in an hour to tell him about the old laws". Voldemort lifted his wand and was about to curse Narcissa when she waggled her finger at him. "If you curse me Potter will know and he will take the lordship of house Malfoy and the wards to the house," Narcissa told him.

Voldemort placed his wand back and just looked at her. "You were really lucky because your husband was so stupid or I would kill you at the spot".

Narcissa just gave him a little smile from the inside out as she kept her face in a tight stare. She had Voldemort in the corner. Her husband was controlling the wards because he was the lord of the house. His blood was controlling it and so Voldemort could not get control. Lucius could give it to him but that was the last thing she would tell him. "But I'm here to show you the meeting but I have to tell you to look at it alone".

"You do not want me to show it to my followers".

"My Lord, why would you give them information, they do not need to know. I did not understand it at all so what if there is something you do not want them to know. If it were up to me you should watch it first all by yourself".

If there was one thing Voldemort didn't like, it was someone telling him what to do. Internally he would snap at them and curse them where they stood. The thing he hated more was when they were right. He loved his followers because he could make them do the dirty work while he remained on the safe side. the other thing he knew was that he didn't trust any of them. they would all sell their soul just to make it big so Narcissa was right. If he wanted to remain on top he had to filter the information he could give his followers".

Narcissa placed the memory into a Pensive and started it. Voldemort went to a corner of the room right behind Narcissa where he could see all the friends. This had been the only spot for him to stand where he could look everyone in the face. The only one he could not see was Narcissa but it was her memory so he didn't needed to see her. Harry was sitting at the head table as he gazed at the others. A muggle girl he didn't know asked the first question and it was a question he wanted to ask himself. "Harry was he as powerful as they said he was".

The eyes of Voldemort snapped to Harry as he waited for the answer. "No he wasn't, He was more powerful than we ever thought he would be. We stand no chance at all. I don't know how they did it in the last war but I know we are going to lose if we fight him one on one". Voldemort started to laugh when he heard the fear in the voice of Harry.

Voldemort gazed on as he heard a girl with red hair ask another thing he wanted to know. "But Harry if we can't fight him, how are we going to survive or win".

Ones again Voldemort turned to Harry as he waited for the answer. "The only chance we have is to beat him is in the witangemot. I know a lot of Death Eaters are there but the ministry has none of them. So we have the ministry on our side. The other thing we have is Albus with his Order. I do not know what they are going to do but they have Snape who is the spy for Albus".

"Do you think that that is enough" another girl with blond hair asked.

"For now it is all we have. I know that Lucius has his doubt about his lord. He will not say it but I know he has. The only thing I don't know is why he went after me when I was a baby. They say I stopped him but I do not believe it. He was so strong the last time I met him. So it had to be luck on my part or something else".

With that, the meeting was over.

End Flashback.

"But that is" Emma started.

"The bast thing they could ever do. Voldemort is now thinking he is this monster they are afraid of. The ministry is full of his followers and like-minded. For Harry to not know that makes him think he has the upper hand. Then the last one is Severus Snape. The friends know he is spying for Voldemort and also for Albus so they do not trust him at all. Now Voldemort thinks they do and he will use it. The thing with Lucius was the icing on the cake. Voldemort will be keeping his eye on him and it will keep me safer to do my spying. The last thing Harry said I didn't understand but I heard Voldemort whispering about a Prophesy".

"They played him like a fiddle" Emma gasped.

"That they did Emma, and it all worked like a charm. Voldemort thinks he is a magical god and is taking things slower because, in his own words. He can take over the world anytime he wants to, because everybody is afraid of him" Narcissa told Emma as she grabbed her arm and waited for the first guest to arrive.

As Minerva, Narcissa and Emma were waiting on the guests. the men were waiting with Augusta in the meeting room. They all knew that the friends had asked for a family meeting. Not only the family but also the friends and some other people they thought were trustworthy to be in the know. It was David who just had to ask. "Augusta, do you have any idea what they are up to".

Augusta shook her head "Not a Pixie idea, the only thing I know is they were already planning it from the moment Voldemort came back".

Dan let out a whistle as he nodded approvingly. "They are already preparing that is a very good sign".

"I'm not sure if I like that idea," Sirius told them. "They are still young, are we really going to let them fight for us".

"Sorry Sirius" Augusta said. "They were young but had to grow up fast because of us. I was treating Neville like his father, Amelia was treating Susan like one of her Aurors. While David was raising Daphne like a true lady of the house". David looked sad but Augusta cut him off before he could say something. "David we all did what we had to do. We were surviving. The war had been over because of Lilly and Harry but the fight was still going on long after it was over. Albus had kept a lot of Death Eaters out of Azkaban because they were the head of the families and because they had the money. We did what we had to do and made sure they could take over from us when they needed to. It might have been wrong but we did well in the end. They were the ones we needed to help Harry and Bella. At that time we didn't know of that part yet but it all turned out okay".

It was now Dan who spoke up "Well for Hermione it was the way she was. She was very smart and didn't have any trouble with showing it. She had this hunger for knowledge and just wanted to know everything. Because of it, she didn't have any friends and it drove her to learn more and more. The downside of that was that she created a world of her own where she was the only one living in it. The one thing she wanted the most was a friend but her love for reading kept them all away, but that all changed when she met the friends".

"So if that was so then what went wrong with Bella to make her grow up so fast". The moment Sirius said it he cursed out loud. "As for Bella, Bella was our fault. I can only blame my mother went behind the back of Lord Black and created marriage contracts with the Death Eaters. Narcissa was older but Bella was only twelve when she was placed into one".

It was now that Zanita popped into the room with Arabella at her side. She had heard the last of what Sirius had said. "I remember it well, it was already decided on the day she was forced into Slytherin. The only friend she had, had been Lily but she didn't know that yet".

"The year she had when she was sent back wasn't a picknick for her as well. She is the only one I know that can connect with Harry on that part". Arabella told them.

"Not only Bella, Nolwenn knows a bit of that kind of life too. She already has him to open up a little and will do it more and more while we are here" Apolline said from the doorway.

Everyone turned around to see the Delacour's standing there with open arms. Apolline was standing in front and was very big and walking on the last days of her pregnancy".

"APOLLINE" sounded a lot of voices as the friends rushed into the room and hugged her close and softly while they were all feeling her belly just to see if Gabrielle would kick. one of the friends, however, stepped to the side and looked at it all from a distance. They hadn't heard a thing that was said because the just walked in from the outside of the castle when they saw Apolline standing there.

A/N This was it again for this week. see you all in two weeks. on a Sunday or a Monday. Sorry, it is holiday season here so there is a lot to do around here so I might be a day late but no more than a day.

Gr Winmau.